To:A. G. SHLYAPNIKOV

Written:Written December, 11, 1914Published:First published in 1924 inLenin Miscellany II.

      Sent to Stockholm.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,[1977],

      Moscow,Volume 43,

      pages441b-442a.Translated:Martin Parker and Bernard IsaacsTranscription\Markup:R. CymbalaPublic Domain:Lenin Internet Archive

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DearFriend,

Ireceived your letter with the news of your departure (on Sunday,
today is Friday) for Copenhagen.

Write(1)whenceyour news and the rumours that you have
conveyed?  From what sources? Who brought them?

(2)Doyounowhave your own sources? At least one address in
St. Petersburg? Or not? Is code and invisible ink being used with anybody
or with nobody at all just now?

Ifthere are no contacts,canyou establish them?

Ifnot, let’s thinkhowand through whom we can do it.
Further, did you get in touch with Litvinov in London?

Belenin’sspeech at the Swedish congress came offwonderfully.[1]As for making a speech in Copenhagen (at the
January 1915
conference),[2]let us start discussing this by letter straightaway.

Yours,Lenin

Uljanow.Distelweg.11.Berne(Suisse).

[1]Atthe Congress of the Swedish Social-Democratic Party =

(see Note 354) the main item on the agenda dealt with the attitude towards
the war. A. G. Shlyapnikov, who brought the Congress a message of greetings
from the R.S.D.L.P.’s Central Committee, read a declaration calling for
struggle against the imperialist war and branding the treachery of the
leaders of the German Social-Democrats and the socialist parties of other
countries, who had turned social-chauvinist. The Congress was reported inSotsial-DemokratNo. 36, for January 9, 1915.

[2]Thisrefers to the projected conference of socialists of the neutral
countries sponsored by Pieter Troelstra and Thorvald Stauning. The
conference was held in Copenhagen January 17–18, 1915, and was attended by
delegates from the socialist parties of Sweden, Denmark, Norway and
Holland. It adopted a resolution calling upon the Social-Democratic parties
of the neutral countries to urge their governments to mediate between the
belligerents for the speedy restoration of peace. Some of the
Social-Democratic parties submitted to the conference their declarations on
the attitude towards the war. From the C.C. of the R.S.D.L.P. the
conference was handed issue No. 33 ofSotsial-Demokratcontaining
the Manifesto “The War and Russian Social-Democracy” and agovernment report concerning the arrest of the Bolshevik deputies of the
Duma.